Creating a Space for the Imperfect - Rabbi Mordechai Burg

remember was the nussey of claudius earl immediately following the destruction of the vasa mcdosh was a great sadaq and a great sage and in an effort to ensure claudia sol's survival he wanted to ensure that there would be no machlokis riv yeshua had several dissenting opinions with ramangamlil and because of those dissenting opinions ramanamali all forced in a very public and sometimes very embarrassing fashion for of yahushua to make sure that everybody knew that he sided with roman numero and because of this behavior eventually raman namalia was deposed as nasi and her velazer benazaria was put in his stead vlasive nazarya was only 18 years old as many of you probably already know but he looked like he was 70 why because in order to be the leader of claudia stroll one needs to have a little bit of gray in their beard one needs to have a beard andrew blesser ben azaria was only 18 years old revelation azaria had a fundamentally different opinion than ramangam leo raman namlial kept the base madris closed only those who could enter were toho cabarro those who were completely authentic their insides and their outsides matched whenever lazer ben azaria became nasty of claudius he threw open the doors of the base madrish and he added in either 400 or 700 new benches into the basement people flocked to come to the base madrish so what was this mahlokis between rabban gamlial and azerbaija why did the magnum lil keep the doors of the base measures closed only open to the best of the best and velazquez threw open the doors of the basement to everybody what's their fundamental disagreement obviously we're talking about two great sages two very righteous men we need to understand both opinions here imagine that you were living in the time immediately following the destruction of the of magdash i imagine you would be asking yourself how can we possibly survive without the bay salmiktus the basa mikdash made judaism not just a religion where we could worship hashem everywhere it made judaism come alive in the most visceral fashions one could walk through the basamektos see the livium see the kohanim see the carbano see the torahs it was vibrant it was alive and with the tragic destruction of the bessamintosh we would have been asking ourselves how can we possibly survive remember's approach was to make great leaders let's take the best of the best let's put him in the basement and let's ensure that we have a mesora a tradition that will be intact for many years to come we will create the great sadhikum of claudia only those who are toho cabarro only those who are authentic will enter into our walls and people will strive to become that level of authenticity in order to join our ranks no doubt remember has a legitimate position [Music] had a different position he said claudius earl's survival cannot be dependent on the few cholesterol survival can only be dependent on the engagement of the masses everybody needs to be invited and everybody needs to be told that they have a helic in serving had a problem the people had been told that they were not worthy the people had been told there was no place for them so what did he do he put in new benches not one or two but hundreds either 400 or 700 new benches into the basement he got up and he announced there's a place for you there's a makam kavuwa for you we're waiting for you that's why thousands of people came they came because after so many years of being told only the best of the best can enter revelation said everyone has a place an hour-based majesh every single one of you is a letter in a safer torah and without you that safer torah is puzzle today i think we can both agree that the ways of ramallah and the ways of revelation have kept us going throughout this long and bitter exile which is almost coming to a close we have great leaders great saddiquim who put themselves in the best yeshivas the best environments that we have to offer and they grow and they steig and bar hashem they become our leaders and we've also gone out and told every single jew there's a place for you in claudius there's a place for you in our basement you don't need to be perfect you don't need to be toho kibaro to serve hashem you just need to be if you exist there's a place for you in our in our community and with hashem's help we will continue to do both for many years to come we'll develop great leaders i have no doubt and we will continue to spread the message of elizabeth zarya every single one of us is welcome into the basement to learn [Music]